I like the theory … I’d never thought about it. I think I’ll use this as an excuse to reread Pickwick. It’s been a long time.

By the way, at Logan Airport in Boston yesterday I saw a woman reading “Origami Yoda” to her son, who looked to be about 8. Beside them on the seats was a girl about 10-ish, reading “Darth Paper.”

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Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:03:53 +0000http://riddleburger.wordpress.com/2007/04/09/how-i-got-the-good-news/#comment-3885tom@origamiyoda.com

And my website is
origamiyoda.com

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Sun, 27 Nov 2011 13:30:21 +0000http://riddleburger.wordpress.com/2007/04/09/how-i-got-the-good-news/#comment-3883What is Tom Angleberger’s e-mail?
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Sun, 20 Nov 2011 17:34:16 +0000http://riddleburger.wordpress.com/?p=2630#comment-3880i am most dissapointed your evil book with the cussing and the low self esteem i have to agree with gayla coughlin she is right
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Mon, 17 Oct 2011 04:18:21 +0000http://riddleburger.wordpress.com/2011/08/11/six-degrees-of-little-women/#comment-3859Wow. Just…wow.
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Sun, 09 Oct 2011 09:07:53 +0000http://riddleburger.wordpress.com/?p=1401#comment-3853This is my father <333
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Sun, 25 Sep 2011 09:17:07 +0000http://riddleburger.wordpress.com/2007/09/21/norman-hunters-incrediblania-and-professor-branestawm-stories/#comment-3847..to realise it was partly because of Norman Hunter; plus sundry other less well-remembered but often funny authors read out on Jackanory (a UK kids’programme, long-running but now I think defunct except for specials.)

It was some of the authors on that, especially,&also the classic absurdist poets such as Edward Lear that must be to blame for my sense of humour, I have decided!

The kids’ entertainment business in my day, certainly in UK, really believed in amusing kids:&sneaking a bit of improvement in by way of an alternative! I wonder if it still does: I think UK kids’ lit is still probably quite funny.

Perhaps quite unlike today’s Hollywood! (&I have long wondered why so many N Ams of my own generation (G. ), and possibly some younger ones, are so impossibly serious and “emo” about things! Going for things like those interminably “serious” modern Batman movies, 4instance!

Fond memories! I remember these on the kids’ storytelling programme, Jackanory, in the 1980s! Can’t remember who read them though: all I remember was that it was vigorous and the illustrations were hilarious!!

I had to Google though before I could remember the author’s surname. I knew it was Norman something! Hunter. He was one of the last of these fine British authors born at the end of the c19th or thereabouts, wasn’t he? So he was quite old when I was a kid. But I remember him having quite modern ideas: I remember him being fascinated by feminist neologisms such as “herstory”! He was fascinated by language, I think because he was in advertising at one time. I remember him being interviewed for my Puffin Club magazine!

So you think Norman Hunter is reminiscent of Stanislaw Lem? Interesting idea..

Anyway, thanks for the memories! I was just wondering why I happen to have such an absurdist sense of humour; and I think I am coming..

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Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:13:24 +0000http://riddleburger.wordpress.com/2007/09/29/my-golden-compass-daemon-a-large-atheist-cat/#comment-3844How do u make a daemon well that cuz once i click on the link i cant find it!!??
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